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2020 Trump vs Biden election conspiracies
President Donald Trump’s baseless claims that Democrats and former Vice President Joe Biden are attempting to “steal” the election are gaining momentum on social media, plunging Facebook and Twitter into the most dangerous and volatile period since Election Day. Goaded by prominent conservatives, …
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Since losing the popular vote by nearly 3 million ballots in 2016, Donald Trump has regularly used election fraud allegations to hide his political shortcomings. But his claims in a statement read in the White House briefing room Thursday night are dangerous to American democracy. Trump claimed …
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Quick Take A bogus QAnon-related claim that many of the mail-in ballots for the Nov. 3 election were illegitimate has spread widely on social media. But the claim is based on the faulty assumption that ballots are produced by the federal government. Full Story On the second day without a clear …
Read MoreA viral conspriacy theory claims a dead man named William Bradley voted in Michigan. Michigan’s Department of State denied the claims, telling Insider that “on rare occasions,” voter records for a deceased person may be mixed up with those of a living person with the same name. The claim, which …
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Conspiracy theories have made their way into mainstream politics, with QAnon and misinformation about large-scale voter fraud among the most visible. Today we talk about a new study on misinformation and conspiracy theories around the 2020 election. We talk to the co-author behind that study find …
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An unidentified protester (right) interrupts a news conference about the ballot counting in Las Vegas, Nev. on Wednesday. Getty Images LONDON (Project Syndicate)—President Donald Trump, perhaps unsurprisingly, has alleged fraud in the Nov. 3 presidential election, without offering what anyone would …
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How should tech firms combat conspiracy theories and remove dangerously misleading content. It has proven to be a daunting challenge during the 2020 election. A team of researchers at Google’s Jigsaw worked last year with ethnographers at the consulting company ReD to take on that question after a …
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Even before Election Day, Donald Trump cast doubts on Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballots. The Supreme Court’s decision permitting the state to accept absentee ballots for several days after the election, he tweeted, “is a VERY dangerous one. It will allow rampant and unchecked cheating.” As soon as the …
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As the 2020 presidential election careens to the finish line – the image of a clown car veering into a ditch comes to mind – the eyes of the nation have been focused on Pennsylvania, looking to the Keystone State for guidance and hints to where this country may be heading for the next four years. …
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WASHINGTON — “So 2020” is a new phrase that made its way into America’s political lexicon this year. It has come to describe all things unexpected, unsettling and unprecedented. This includes the vitriolic political discourse that has deepened the partisan divide, the coronavirus pandemic, economic …
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